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Aaron Alcala, PhD

@AaronEvoDevo

🧬 Geneticist | 🎥 Science Communicator & Educator | 👨🏻‍🔬 @uga_genetics alum

 Atlanta, GA
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Joined August 2018
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After 100+ attempts to photograph this little lizard, I'm proud to say my image of our albino hatchling made the cover of @CellReports today! Our paper led by @LizEyeSciGal on gene editing in lizards is out! Go #TeamLizard!
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"It truly takes a village to complete a PhD. I am sincerely thankful for all the people below, who helped me overcome the emotional turmoil a PhD causes." I'm still in recovery😅
Jennifer Polk, PhD (she, her) (@FromPhDtoLife) profile pictureJennifer Polk, PhD (she, her)@FromPhDtoLife11 Jul 2023
First sentence of my PhD dissertation acknowledgments: "Dissertations are researched and written alone, but they are not entirely solitary endeavours." What's yours?
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Science Careers@ScienceCareers8 Jun 2023
“Many of us face the perception that the more time a scientist spends popularizing science, the less scientifically accomplished they are,” this physicist writes. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter fal.cn/3yVE5
Scientists shouldn’t have to choose between public outreach and research

Scientists shouldn’t have to choose between public outreach and research

“Many of us face the perception that the more time a scientist spends popularizing science, the less scientifically accomplished they are,” this physicist writes

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Universities need to do more to prepare PhD graduates for careers outside of academia.
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For anyone interested in RNA-seq & ChIP-seq analyses, I FINALLY made a GitHub with all the tools/scripts used in my dissertation. Includes how I made heatmaps, volcano plots, gene set enrichment analyses, and more. #bioinformatics #genomics Check it out: github.com/gene-drive/Tbx5-f…
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Weird flex but something I'm proud of is making my dissertation PDF have a clickable Table of Contents AND bookmarks for easy navigation (assuming anyone wants to read it 😅) #accessibility #AcademicChatter
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Hoping these links remain after I upload to the dissertation database😐
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Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm a science communicator📸and geneticist🧬 Check out my work in scientific writing, video production, photography, and graphic design. I am graduating in a month and looking for work! #scicomm aaronalcala.myportfolio.com/
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UGA Genetics@uga_genetics27 Mar 2023
Congrats to our newest PhD, Dr. Aaron Alcala! Here @AaronEvoDevo is with his advisor Doug Menke @dbmenke. Aaron will pursue a career in SciComm. Congrats, Dr. Alcala, we are so proud of you!!
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Today's the day!
Aaron Alcala, PhD (@AaronEvoDevo) profile pictureAaron Alcala, PhD@AaronEvoDevo21 Mar 2023
I'm defending on Monday, March 27th at 2:00pm EDT! Come learn about limbs, genitals, and gene regulation! Register for the Zoom webinar here: bit.ly/Alcala_PhD
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I'm defending on Monday, March 27th at 2:00pm EDT! Come learn about limbs, genitals, and gene regulation! Register for the Zoom webinar here: bit.ly/Alcala_PhD
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MUST SEE tips 👇👇👇
Sketching Science (@sketchscience) profile pictureSketching Science@sketchscience16 Mar 2023
I hated doing PCRs 🧬 as an undergraduate… Now, as a postdoc, I’ve done thousands of PCRs 🧬… Here are 10 tips to do perfect PCRs:
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@jdpereira8 Mar 2023
I will die on this hill: - what we pay PhDs and Postdocs is the single greatest factor in segregation and discrimination in science. Want to increase diversity? Pay. People. Make scientific careers attractive to everyone. Not just the privileged.
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Me as my dissertation deadline approaches
Academic Chatter™ (@AcademicChatter) profile pictureAcademic Chatter™@AcademicChatter25 Feb 2023
what if instead of writing i just lay down for a little while
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Douglas Menke@dbmenke27 Jan 2023
The loss of iridophores makes anole skin partially translucent, allowing bones and large blood vessels to become more visible in certain parts of the body. The loss of iridophores in the iris, makes the eyes appear completely black.
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Our report on reptile pigmentation is out! Go check out the paper to see more cool photos of lizards that I took!
Two lizards lay on a rock. In foreground is a brown anole lizard with a mutation in tfec. It has a clear reduction of pigmentation in the snout and limbs and has a complete absence of iridophores. In the background is a wild-type brown anole lizard.

ALT Two lizards lay on a rock. In foreground is a brown anole lizard with a mutation in tfec. It has a clear reduction of pigmentation in the snout and limbs and has a complete absence of iridophores. In the background is a wild-type brown anole lizard.

Douglas Menke (@dbmenke) profile pictureDouglas Menke@dbmenke27 Jan 2023
In 2019 @embryo_vet reported a new method for the generation of gene-edited lizards. Together with @JLauderdale_PhD, we’ve been busy targeting additional loci, and our latest efforts have just been published: tinyurl.com/y6vkru7f
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Can confirm- @AlexDainis was a kickass speaker during her visit to @uga_genetics. We were very fortunate to host her; in addition to her seminar, she worked with me to co-lead a sci-comm workshop for trainees!
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Wow. This would've saved me so many years of analyzing all my omics datasets 🤣
Steven Ge (@StevenXGe) profile pictureSteven Ge
@StevenXGe19 Dec 2022
Happy holidays! Introducing RTutor.ai, an AI-powered app that lets you chat with your data in English! RTutor uses Davinci (#ChatGPT’s sibling) to turn requests into R code, which is executed & results are shown instantly, available as a HTML report in seconds. 1/8
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Today's the last day to vote!
Aaron Alcala, PhD (@AaronEvoDevo) profile pictureAaron Alcala, PhD@AaronEvoDevo17 Nov 2022
I'm honored that five (!!?!) of my photos were chosen as finalists in the 🦎@AnoleAnnals Photo Contest! Please go vote for me here: anoleannals.org/2022/11/14/a…
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I'm honored that five (!!?!) of my photos were chosen as finalists in the 🦎@AnoleAnnals Photo Contest! Please go vote for me here: anoleannals.org/2022/11/14/a…
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One of the things that pisses me off most in #SciComm is when a generic scientist is represented by a White man.
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